LadyCrimson

I saw the title "scandalous" and was expecting drunk lampshade dancing pics or something. I'm disappointed. Seriously...nice pics. I really like the first one, great scenic portrait photo.

The rainwater that had collected in my birdfood dish outside was frozen this morning. Not all the way into a solid round bowl-shaped ice-cube, but more than half-way there. Hey, it's coastal California...doesn't happen too often. I'm still waiting for another sea-level snowfall, like when I was in 2nd grade. It could happen.

I ended up liking TQ/IT a lot and actually finished it. I thought I was going to re-play it, either w/new chrs. or higher difficulty, but it lost me after that. It was very fun while it lasted tho. And I absolutely loved the shared-stash feature. All hack n slash games should have those. :D Still playing Dungeon Siege2...mid-way through the 2nd difficulty and still having a blast. I didn't like the DS2 Broken World expansion very much, so I went back to the "original" version. Broken World has some ok skill re-balancing but the new Act sucks/is boring and I can't stand what they did to the item mods - where every single item feels like some variation of "Chance to do some magic effect on hit" and not much else. Feels lifeless and dull compared to the original three acts, so I'll stick to DS2 2.2.

DS2 has an easter egg level that, among other things, is filled with game-maker persona chrs standing around in many rooms, most with things to say if you click on them. It was kinda cool. The most fun, tho, was "meeting" Chris Taylor, who wa very busy having a pillow fight....and then "stealing" his pillow. Now time to try Broken World. After doing all the stuff to avoid the inn bug (no mods needed, either), I decided to start from scratch anyway, cause I got PO'd at the way BW's lvl 39 npc's are built, compared to what I'd turned them into.

No, I'm not using BW yet. I bought it since it was cheap, but I heard it changes levelup/power/chr. formulas or something - plus I'm a little worried about the inn-bug if you import your party I heard about - so I'm waiting till I finish the original game at least once. I'm almost there.

The thread title excited me. The actual article announcement did not. I thought it was fun. No replay value, but silly fun. It's not DK tho... That's my take on it. I'm sure they can take the environment (you play a monster instead of a "hero") and all of that and turn it into a MMORPG, but to me DK means strategy game...not a RPG. A DK-themed on-line RPG...I don't see it being anything but another WoW or whatever. What would the imps do in a RPG? Could you play as an imp? I suppose playing a Bile Demon with varying levels of super-farting powers might be kinda amusing tho.

Interesting...akin to the meanings behind our human names. I guess Oakland was named for having a lot of oak trees or something...not much change there, hah.

True Lies Terminator 1 & 2. Call me weird, but I also liked Twins a lot...

Graphic 'ho. It's 4 years old after all, using an engine that's probably even older. I remember when Dungeon Siege1 came out 6? 7? years ago and how everyone thought it was so gorgeous for an isometric perspective. lol It's slow to really get going, but the game is fun...unless you just hate hack n slash on principle, of course. As I often say, no such genre game will do anything to change anyone's mind on that. Anyway, w/gamma darker and video higher it can look a smidgen better. Contrast washes out badly if you turn the gamma up to see, the textures seem soft overall, and up close, chrs./monsters have what I call chunky-butt polygon syndrome. But I still like it.

Being trampled to death wouldn't be on my list of "favorite things," no. We're probably not doing much for Xmas, per usual, but all the shopping bargains may be taken advantage of.

How about something new to decorate your tree with this year, in the form of reindeer dung tree ornaments?? Honestly... Source Link

The U.S. State Department reported/confirmed that they died... R.I.P. Sorry to hear. Sounds like you're a good friend. Did mostly mundane household chores this morning. But I did have a dream about coming to this forum and seeing some very strange threads. Srsly, it was a dream, not reality.

There's another Tombraider? Still playing DS2, so ... Packmule when you first buy him If you "feed" him he grows! Ouch. One snake head down, one almost dead, one to go. Sneak attack

What? It's not the kind of game or ssreenshot where you can see lots when you're zoomed out that much anyway, and it's not a great-new-graphic game. I was trying not to do a big screen-warping picture or take up Ob's attachment space, but fine ... here you go. Heh. The game doesn't have an in-game 1600x1200 setting, btw, but if you alter the ini file it'll accept it.

Last night mom came by and had dinner at our house. She comes over a lot more now that we moved closer.... She's doing well but her mind wanders more and more, making continual conversation a bit more difficult. And she occasionally calls me by my sister's name, stuff like that. Course, I'm half her age and my mind wanders almost as much....so between the two of us, the evening can be, uh, quite interesting...haha I need to find a small portable DVD/TV thingie for my dad, who currently is restricted to lying on his sides, so the TV in his room isn't viewable, and he's kinda bored. Mom's not a very good tech shopper...

That's not an elf, it's a Vulcan! One of the things I like about DS2 is there are, occasionally, simple puzzles. Nothing that will work your brain cells or anything close, but at least it's something besides Fed Ex quests. Here you're supposed to turn statues until the mirrors line up properly to open a chamber, that kind of thing. Yeah, I'm liking this party-based action-rpg sequel more and more. Especially once I put in a small mod to give myself 6 party members, instead of 4, in the first (no choice) difficulty. I hate enforced limits like that. :D Now I just need to feed/grow my mule pet chr. (he's not in the screen) so it can carry more stuff.

I finally got the cursor in Dungeon Siege2 to stop flickering like a candle in the wind, and now on my 2nd try to play this game I'm kinda liking it. Nothing special, but for hack n slash it's still passable fun. I really disliked it when I first bought it a while ago, possibly because I liked DS1 enough that the differences in DS2 irritated me, but once you get farther into it, it becomes more engaging. Probably won't finish it, but since I'm sick of WoW and wanted a quickie weekend action-rpg fix - the only kind I have the patience/time for anymore - it's working nicely.

Finally watched Wall-E. Hubby's first comment after watching it: "Those guys at Pixar sure have some wild imagination." His second comment: "The romance parts were a bit much for me." I liked it...first half was great, 2nd half worked. A robotic ET is an adorable creation. Think I'm going to watch it again.

Not really. At least, most of the time mods are chosen because they are antisocial enough to be on here anyways. I'm still anti-social. It's my interests/habits that changed. Congrats Gorth, well deserved imo, and ... ...wait, are those celebratory cookies on your desk? What's that over there?! *steals cookie*

I've known women who weren't obsessively neat, but none that were slobs. I myself would fall in the middle - I want things to be neat, clean, and orderly and can obsess over it - but since one, I also like to be lazy, and two, my husband is one of the worst apathetic slobs in history, it's rarely as clean/neat as I desire. There comes a point in life where you have to decide whether you'd rather spend half your spare time cleaning or doing something else. Eventually, many people - including women - choose "something else" and start rethinking their standards of what's acceptable. Unless, of course, you can afford a daily maid/cook/butler - or your living space is only a 8x10 room.

This mostly applies to strategy/action and some adventure games, but can apply to any genre: Mandatory timed/countdown-clock missions/levels. I absolutely loathe them and any game that has more than one (maybe two) I will toss in the trashcan.

Some of my friends have had an hour or more waiting before they were 'logged on'...long queue lines + crowded areas. The DK starter area was very fun quest-wise and such. I had a blast with that and wish all quest lines were that fun. You can make a DK and finish that area in not much time. I played the beta enough to be already burnt out on the newness of it all...even tho it's probably changed since I last played (I quit the beta before it was over) I'm going to wait before I actually buy the expansion...let the crowds die down a little. I do wonder what balance they finally struck w/the DK's power-wise.

I've tried to make myself climb the ladder to enter the roof space (through the ceiling hole in the closet) to check it out, but as soon as I step on the 3rd or 4th step and it wobbles, I panic and go back down. Strangely, I can run around a steep cliffside area or stand on a balance beam or climb a tree or whatever, without a problem. But ladders...*shudder*...

I think it'll be affected, yes...how much is up for debate. But I'd generally agree that it probably won't have the kind of drop-off as "general retail" and such. Games are one of the cheaper, "stay at home when we have to conserve money" entertainment options ... even if you can't run out and buy a new title every couple weeks anymore. So yeah...people may buy less, and sales for Xmas titles will likely fall below original expectations, but I think gamers will still be buying enough to keep companies afloat, as long as the economy woes begin to recover within a year or two. I predict beer companies will also stay afloat during these dark times.

That's a film I liked a lot when I first saw it, but after a few repeat viewings didn't like all that much at all. Except for the brief earthquake scene. I find all such earthquake joke-scenes hilarious. I saw Casino Royale. I like Bond movies, but am not a huge fan overall, so I didn't bother to see this one until now. Great film, great new Bond actor dude. And now I've seen it just in time to for it to be fresh in my mind when I see the new Bond film.